In a single brilliant (and concise) tweet, the actor demonstrated how to fight manipulation and use the power of emotion for good.

The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star and former professional NFL player took to Twitter yesterday to call out music mogul Russell Simmons. Crews posted an email Simmons allegedly sent him, urging him to drop his recent sexual assault charges against high-powered Hollywood agent Adam Venit.(Crews claims that Venit, a high-powered Hollywood agent who represents top clients such as Emma Stone, Adam Sandler, and Eddie Murphy, made a series of lewd gestures and then physically groped him at a party last year.)

"This guy [Venit]...looked at me at the end, as if [to say]: Who's going to believe you?

I understood why women everywhere...won't come forward. A lot of times, people go, well why didn't you come forward sooner? But this is the thing: When a person of power breaks that boundary...you're a prisoner of war. Immediately, you're in a camp. Because you're trying to figure out, when is the right time to come out? When the guard turns their head? When they leave a door open? You're digging tunnels with spoons. You're trying to find a way out--and you get out, and then you finally find freedom and somebody says: Well it must not be that bad. You should have came out sooner."

The email Simmons purportedly sent Crews is more evidence of the dark side. By asking Crews to "give the agent a pass," it sends the message that a weak apology is sufficient to alleviate any severe emotional pain and suffering experienced by the victim. It also implies that excusing this type of behavior is somehow taking the high road, but that couldn't be further from the truth. (That message has since become complicated by new and disturbing allegations against Simmons himself.)